Diagnosis of LVDD and hospital mortality
We found no differences in hospital mortality according to the diagnosis of LVDD based on the ASE/EACVI 2016 recommendations. Among non-survivors, n=10/17 (59%) had diagnosis of LVDD as compared with survivors (n=2/9, 22%; p=0.11). The sensitivity analysis performed according to ICU mortality held similar results (n=9/15 vs n=3/11, respectively; p=0.13).
When investigating association between hospital mortality and LVDD diagnosis according to simplified Lanspa criteria30, n=14/17 (82%) of hospital non-survivors and n=7/9 (78%) of survivors had diagnosis of LVDD (p=1.00). We also found no differences in the in the diagnosis of LVDD according to ICU mortality (p=0.50).
Numbers were far too small to analyze subgroups according to LVDD grade, and these analyses were not conducted.